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policy is used to determine the
final course grade for each class
or section of the same or substan-
tially the same course during an
academic year.
the change would be expensive,
Martin said.
In previous meetings, Student
Government formed a committee
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and understanding to
productive
social and cultural activities.
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Schweid wrote that Bush said
the protests were irrelevant to his
duty to protect America.
Despite the president's atti-
tude toward opposition to war,
events are still being planned.
A full-page ad in Wednesday's
San Antonio Express-News, list- .
ed supporters of the "Not In Our
Name" campaign.
To view a list of more than
40,000 signers or to sign the state-
ment online, visit www.nion.us.
control of oil," Codina said. world showing their disapproval going to decide policy based upon
"If we go to war, it's only going of a war. a focus group."
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organizations
included the
Parking,
concern students
A rally supporting
President Bush is
planned at 1 p.m.
Saturday at Alamo
Plaza. The Bexar
County Republican
Party is sponsoring the
rally in response to
_________ Esperanza Peace and Justice
Center's Artescuela program
protesters brought her nieces and nephews,
through downtown ages 4 through 10.
"It's really important that even
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training and special projects.
Grants are also paying for
long- and short-term proj-
ects for international students
from Central America and the
Caribbean.
The purpose of the programs
is to have international students
return to their countries as
trained professionals.
Eighteen students at Northwest
Vista College are training as pub-
lic health educators in a two-year
health program.
Some $518,000 in
grant money is being
provided for the pro-
gram.
Seventeen students
at St. Philip's College
are training as X-ray
technicians in a two-
year radiography pro-
gram.
Grants being spent
amount to $500,000.
Twenty-two students
at Palo Alto College
citizens.
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this because we live
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received Vflier English Professor Rita Mayer and
with suggestions Patti Weissler hold protest signs.
be on the agenda for the March 5
Faculty Senate meeting.
The location of faculty spots
to exchange has not been deter-
mined.
Martin said child development
faculty had requested the addi-
tional spaces.
If they decide to approve a
swap, the Faculty Senate would
then write a proposal and take it
A trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, for 12 students,
three from each of the Alamo Community
College District's four colleges, has been
chopped from four weeks to two because of
new state budgeting guidelines.
The trip originally was a part of a month-
long project, but because of a letter sent Jan.
23 from Gov. Rick Perry, which said state
money could not be used for traveling abroad,
the trip was cut to two weeks.
To go on the trip June 16-30, students will
be enrolled in special sections of SPAN 2311,
Intermediate Spanish 1, and HUMA 1301,
Introduction to Humanities, for the first sum-
mer session June 1-July 8.
The classes will take place at this college.
Three students will be selected from each
college out of those who apply by March 3.
Prerequisites are Spanish 1411 and 1412 or
demonstrated language proficiency. Students
also must bring a copy of college transcripts
with at least a 2.5 grade-point average.
Students also will be required to turn in
a two-page essay describing their maturity,
commitment to community service, cultural
flexibility and desire to learn about other
cultures.
The selection committee for this college
consists of foreign languages Chair Carol
Swanson, Spanish Professor Tom
Manzo, political science Professor
J. Philip Rogers and interdisci-
plinary studies Professor Mariana
Ornelas of Palo Alto College.
Students selected will receive a
scholarship to pay for tuition, room
and board in Oaxaca and trips to
archeological sites and museums.
The U.S. Agency for International
Development is furnishing $7,0C0.
Students will pay $500 for program
expenses and need a suggested Manzo
$200 for personal expenses.
Manzo said the emphasis of the
first two weeks of the course is to prepare
students for the trip. Students will be given
a CD-ROM video as a part of text material to
study Oaxacan art and culture.
The last two weeks of the course will take
place in Oaxaca, where students will study
history and culture for the humanities credit
and language for the Spanish credit.
Student Government President
Kimberly Martin reported at
Tuesday's meeting that she has
presented a proposal to Faculty
Senate President Bill Richardson
for an even "swap" of student
parking spaces for faculty spaces
at the end of the semester.
She said Richardson had
asked Student Government to
give up 35 student spaces in Lot
5 on Ashby Place east of the child
development center.
Martin said students should
be given 35 spaces elsewhere if
they lost that number of spaces
in Lot 5.
Richardson told The Ranger
Wednesday Martin was willing
to give up five spaces. He said the
Graciela Garcia, who is pursu-
ing a doctorate at New Mexico
State University, is doing her dis-
sertation on the Esperanza Peace
and Justice Center.
"I love my country and I'm
really concerned with the partic-
ular rhetoric about war," Garcia
said. "Killing dehumanizes all of
us. Those that kill and get killed
need to start thinking abput the
discourse we're in."
i Psychology sophomore Mario
Gutierrez believes it would be
outrageously wrong and unjusti-
fiable for this nation to go to war
at this time.
"When a corporate-sympathet-
ic president with a history in oil
decides to invade a country with
one of the largest oil reserves in
the world, I think there is some-
thing wrong," Gutierrez said.
"The president does
About
marched
Saturday from HemisFair Park to
Milam Park in "The World Says at their young ages to know there
No To War" march. are alternatives. Anytime I go to a
Food not Bombs, a group that march, I try to bring them. These
are values that I want to instill in
them — to not be afraid to speak
protest needed to be out and to know that they have a
voice," Grise said.
Elementary education sopho-
more Marcela Hernandez
marched with her three children,
mother and father.
"Because my parents came
from a generation when people
Fifteen students St. Philip's
Southwest campus are training
International students are pro- in construction management.
Vided with accommodations and
"Oaxaca is a beautiful city with a lot of home stays, visa and application
culture," he said. "It's a place where a lot of processing, students support and
Europeans as well as Americans travel."
Students will visit archeological sites, such
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Grants amount to $135,000.
The Nicaraguan Pilot Project
was also a year-long project in
2001 that sent 15 faculty to design
a workforce development pro-
as the Mitla and Monte Alban, and when former Chancellor Robert gram consisting of 16 jobs,
art museums.
On the trip, students will be
required to journal their experi-
ences and compile a research
paper about Oaxacan culture,
which will be graded as a major
portion of the course.
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Spanish in a
to show his solidarity with the Bush stated,"You know, the size of
really important in my advanced tration just wants to expand their millions of people around the protests is like deciding, well, I'm
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believes the president's interests protesting because they're the Constitution. Our government is
said
going to be affected stripping the First Amendment of
the Constitution," Gavito said.
Barry Schweid of the Associated
continuation of the policies start- St. Mary's University, marched Press wrote on Tuesday President
Because of the success of
the project, the U.S. Agency
for International Development
asked district trustees Jan. 16,
2001, to set up the Foundation for
to teach English to Oaxacan stu- "Most of the department International Consulting Inc.
d^nts. is funded with soft money," The foundation's intention
He said students might work Conrado said. "This is money was to create more international
with the Desarolla Integral de paid from other sources, not the development projects like the
la Familia, known as the DIF, for social or district. We have one of the small- Nicaraguan Pilot Project, but
archeological department projects. est budgets in the district." although trustees approved the
"I think we'll get to cover the things we In 2002, $1,987,798 was foundation, it was never used.
wanted, but as for the community service, generated in grants from the The foundation was termi-
we won't get to do as much service learning," U.S. Agency for International nated when former Executive
Manzo said. Development and Department Vice Chancellor Ernest Martinez
For more information, call Manzo at 733- , of Education. The grants paid for became interim chancellor in
2529 or e-mail him at jmanzo@accd.edu. eight employee salaries, contract October because it was dormant.
Ramsay created the office in the Conrado said -the project
wake of the signing of the North brought in $90,000 in revenue,
American Free Trade Agreement but the most important benefit
in 1993 in San Antonio. was developing curriculum mod-
The district budget for the ules for faculty.
department amounts to $225,875
to pay for office expenses and
will practice institutional salaries for Conrado
language exchange and Marie Henriquez, interna-
program that will require students tional programs coordinator.
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is funded with soft money,"
Conrado said. "This is money
paid from other sources, not the
district. We have one of the small-
est budgets in the district."
In 2002, $1,987,798 was
generated in grants from the
U.S. Agency for International
Development and Department
global soci-
Conrado said.
could post messages for books "Everything that affects the are being trained in teaching and
they want to swap.
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for following city
ordinances and tips on common
sense and general safety.
The flier also included a list
of chants for marchers, such as
"Peace — yes! Vengeance — no!
Bush's war has got to go!"
The flier also included the lyr-
ics to the civil rights anthem "We
Shall Overcome."
People of different ages and
ethnicities and even animals
were part of the crowd.
Vicky Grise, a teacher in the
to make matters worse. We can "As a law student, I feel com-
see how it's dividing the world, pelled to protect laws — we're
Gutierrez said. even this country. But I am very violating all kinds of interna-
Esperanza member Ed Codina glad to see a lot of young people tional laws — and protect our
Student life funds paid for the
Feb. 3 memorial service for the
crew of the shuttle Columbia, he
said.
The revenue generated by a Giving students an interna-
student life fee could be used to tional perspective is the mission
bring guest speakers, he said. of the office of international
Osborn said that Laredo operations.
Damaso Torres, an international ‘ Community College financed
relations student at St. Mary's the renovation of a kitchen for
University and a former Student $35,000 out of revenue from stu-
"At a minimum, the policy Government president who is
must require that the final grades assisting with the group's Web
for each section or class of the
same course offered during an
exchange of 30 or 35 spots would academic year be determined
world affects the U.S." leadership skills in a one-year
The office, located at the rural teaching program.
Killen Center, 201 W. Sheridan, Grants paying for the program
provides study-abroad programs amount to $349,000.
and international internships for
students who are U.S. citizens.
serves free food to the home-
less, converged with others who
thought a
organized in San Antonio.
"So many people are against
the war. It's really not just a small
group," organizer Leti Guerra, a
former student here, said.
Participating
in the march
Esperanza Peace
and Justice
Center, Fuerza
Unida,
Peace
the
American Anti-
Discrimination
Committee
and Texans for
Peace.
The march did
not have a per-
mit so marchers
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In other business, Martin
said state Rep. Joaquin Castro of JHhH
District 125 has requested that
Student Government write a res-
olution supporting hb 613, which Members of Student Government meet in Loftin Student Center,
would require that institutions
of higher learning use a uniform
grading policy on class sections
of the same course.
The bill reads, "Each institu-
tion of higher education shall Feb. 4 to design a proposal seek-
that a uniform grading ing a $5 fee to be paid with tuition
that would fund student life.
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would protest,
they instilled
those values
in me and I
want my chil-
dren to know
they can
make their
views known
to the world,
in peaceful
ways. Not
just our fam-
ily feels this
way," she
said.
"People
need to know not all Americans "The president does not
rally behind the president. This support the people's interest,"
protest is part of our freedom to ~
make the world a better place,"
Hernandez said.
Esther Buddenhagen said stem from the president's father's ones who are
she was definitely against the political history. the most," Codina said.
Vietnam,War, but was too shy to "What's happening now is a Tony Gavito, a law student at
protest in the 1960s and 1970s. <
"I thought it seemed really, ed by Bush Sr. The Bush adminis-
according to the same numeric or Alamo Community College
other scale." District colleges," said Tom
She said she would bring the Osborn, associate director of stu-
matter up after she received a dent life.
copy of the bill. ACCD trustees would need to
Student Government voted approve the rate hike in the gen-
unanimously to drop a proposal eral fee before it could be imple-
to switch the direction of the mented, he said.
escalators in Moody Learning
Center to save students time.
The system is too old, and
Eduardo Conrado, director
of the office, said the district
department's mission is the
dent life. same as that of the
Osborn said the money could Alamo Community j
be used to enhance scholarship College District: to
funds, to enhance the computer promote international
to represent a consensus of the software in various departments education to provide
Alamo Community College or for more park benches. the district's students ,
District colleges," said Tom Faculty adviser Joseph Engle with knowledge, skill
mentioned the possibility of an
online book swap being placed become
on the Student Government Web
page.
Martin suggested this col-
lege could have a bulletin board
"The money from the general for book swaps, where students
fee would stay on each campus,"
he said.
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